Dr. Kamau Rashid & Dr. Miron Clay-Gilmore: The Attack On Black Academia
Dr. Kamau Rashid & Dr. Miron Clay-Gilmore: The Attack On Black Academia
In this interview, we speak with Dr. Kamau Rashid and Dr. Miron Clay-Gilmore about the ongoing challenges facing Black academics and the broader attack on Black intellectual life.
We take a deep look at the controversy surrounding Jason Arday and what his case reveals about the treatment of Black scholars within academia. The conversation also explores philosophy as a discipline, the role of sociology, and how Black intellectual traditions have challenged dominant academic frameworks.
Drawing on the work and ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois and Huey P. Newton, we discuss Black scholarship, power, knowledge, institutional racism, and the importance of developing intellectual traditions rooted in the experiences and struggles of Black people.
This is a wide-ranging conversation about academia, philosophy, sociology, Black intellectual history, and the future of Black scholarship.
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10 days ago
(Dis)integration problems
10 days ago
"I'm on the market at the time"
11 days ago
“Any attack on any African individual has to be understood within the context as an attack on the global structure of African people.
In western societies, Africans are regarded as a social malignancy.
Jason Arday became a signifier, the symbol of the malignant nature of Black people. And in more specifically, he became the signifier of malignant nature of the Black intellectual, the Black academic.
In as much it was about Jason Arday, it was also about the problematizing the presence of Black people in academia, particularly Black men in academia.
The idea was to signify his presence, those he signify as, and those he signify for as totally illegitimate.
The constant media coverage was to proliferate the broader message of illegitimacy of Black people, particularly Black men, within these elite western institutions.”
—Okunini (Dr.) Kamau Rashid
11 days ago
Nathan Cofnas– a white Jewish post-doctorate in philosophy.
Nathan Cofnas is an American postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University in Belgium. He is known for controversies surrounding his advocacy and support of scientific racism and eugenics.
Nathan Cofnas Accused Jason Arday Of Being a DEI hire:
—University of Cambridge refuses to investigate DEI star hire.
—There is a DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge
“Wouldn’t it be the most ridiculous story ever told, if the boy (calling a grown Black man a boy), who couldn’t read and write at age 18 gets a PhD before he’s 30?”
-On Nathan Cofnas personal substack page, he writes about how worthless Jason Arday is.
— According to Natan Cofnas, Jason Arday, is an inferior, subhuman Black man who was only hired by the University of Cambridge because of DEI.
—There has been plenty of white academics who have committed plagiarism in academia, but Nathan Cofnas has not produce any inflammatory articles against them or be under intense media scrutiny.
Nathan Cofnas -a white Jewish post-doctorate in philosophy
—He is a race realist
—He outright believes Black people are inferior and dumber than white people.
—He has written scholarly articles suggesting Black people on average have lower Intelligence (IQ) than white people (this is a direct quote).
—Nathan Cofnas truly believes without DEI and affirmative action mechanisms in academia, Blacks would disappear from almost all high-profile positions in academia, except for sports and entertainment (this is a direct quote).
—According to Nathan Cofnas, Black people are better at dribbling a basketball, kicking a football and dancing on stage, but it is close to impossible, zero percent chance, for Black people to be doctors, engineers, professors, intellectuals, etc., or anything that has to do with high-position scholarly or academic nature (this is a direct quote).
—According to Nathan Cofnas, he awrites in a scholarly article, if admission at Harvard University were based solely on grades and test scores, the Black undergraduate population at Harvard University would only be 0.7% instead of the current 14% (this is a direct quote).
“After the revolution happens, I will be the head of department of eugenics and race science at Harvard University.”
—A direct quote in an interview from Nathan Cofnas, a white Jewish post-doctorate in philosophy.
—After the revolution against Black people, Nathan Cofnas will be the head of department of eugenics and race science at Harvard University.
—Jason Arday’s accuser Nathan Cofnas has been suspended from teaching on Ghent University campus for three months but will be allowed to continue his research position.
—Jason Arday’s Accuser, Nathan Cofnas, Says He Will Not Be Fired, He Is Suspended For 3 Months From Teaching At Ghent University.
11 days ago
the part about dubois not attacking alain locke...but i think it is interesting to emphasize that given his history of attacking booker t. washington and, most important, Papa Kweku Marcus Moziah Garvey...
11 days ago